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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:53:13 +0100<br>> From: eilert-sprachen@t-online.de<br>> To: scribus@lists.scribus.net<br>> Subject: [scribus] Scanning photos for a book project<br>> <br>> I am about to make a family chronicle with a lot of old photos. The <br>> older ones are of course baryte paper prints which have a nice rough <br>> surface.<br>> <br>> Scanning the first photos, I find that there is too much light on the <br>> shadows, and the surface structure results in tiny white stripes and <br>> spots, reflections which show the paper structure but may be disturbing <br>> when the photos are viewed in the book.<br>> <br>> With the Gimp I can easily compress the shadows a bit so that black <br>> becomes black, but the tiny spots remain.<br>...<br>> So there are actually 2 problems: There is no automatic for finding the <br>> right black value point, and there is the problem that the lamp lights <br>> the paper structure too much. I tried to turn the photos by 90°, but to <br>> no avail.<br></div><div><br></div><div>You could try post-processing with other more-specialized applications like LightZone <a href="http://www.lightzoneproject.org/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.lightzoneproject.org/</a> instead of gimp.</div><div><br></div><div>Scanning at a lower resolution might make the paper structure less apparent, especially if you are currently scanning at over 300 dpi.</div><div><br></div><div>William</div><div><br></div> </div></body>
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